viii, 168 pages ; 21 cm

This book shows how the story of drugs illuminates the story of humanity, exploring the long relationship between human beings and mind-altering substances

Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Remote Antiquity -- 2. The Greek World -- 3. The Roman World -- 4. The End of Paganism -- 5. Islam and Inebriation -- 6. Drugs, Lust, and Satan -- 7. The Resurgence of Medicine -- 8. The Discovery of America -- 9. The End of the Old Regime and the Opium Wars -- 10. The Nineteenth Century -- 11. The Antiliberal Reaction -- 12. The Beginnings of the Crusade -- 13. New Drugs -- 14. A Pharmacratic Peace -- 15. The Psychedelic Rebellion -- 16. Return of the Repressed -- 17. The Era of Substitutes -- 18. Some Aspects of the Problem

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